Monroe, Mary

Annette Goode Davis is a survivor. Life has often knocked her down, but she's never stayed there for long. To Annette, it's all about family and old friends like Rhoda O'Toole. And right now, Annette needs all the friends she can get. Because lately, her husband, Pee Wee, barely has the time of day for her. And she has no idea why.

Lifelong friends Annette Goode and Rhoda Nelson find their friendship tested when Annette begins to receive anonymous and menacing gifts, letters, and packages and someone begins to spread nasty rumors about her around their community, ruining Annette's reputation and threatening her happiness.

Annette Goode, abused by the boarder her mother has taken in, is forced out of her self-imposed solitude when the beautiful, worldly Rhoda decides to be her friend, but Annette finally comes to realize Rhoda's friendship is more burden than blessing.

Maureen takes her chance to explore the outside world and get away from her mother, the troubled Mama Ruby, who kidnapped Maureen from a friend as an infant and is rumored to have killed her former husband.

Six women from vastly different backgrounds are drawn together while working as call girls for Clyde Brooks, who uses the women to care for him and his young daughter, Keisha.

Carmen Taylor, in love with Chester Sheffield since childhood, spends one memorable night with the man even though she is committed to her fiance Burl who is confined to a wheelchair, but her life takes an unexpected turn when her friend Desiree becomes involved with Chester and Carmen reluctantly agrees to intervene in a fight between the two which goes horribly wrong.

Teri Stewart, successful executive for a Los Angeles record company, is determined to wait for the right man; but when radio DJ Harrison Starr, a man from her past with a terrible secret, returns, Teri falls for him all over again.

Annette Goode meets the father who left her and her mother when she was an infant, loses her groom when her uncle announces that she used to be a prostitute, and reconnects with the friend who murdered her rapist.

Lifelong friends Annette Goode and Rhoda Nelson find their friendship tested when Annette begins to receive anonymous and menacing gifts, letters, and packages and someone begins to spread nasty rumors about her around their community, ruining Annette's reputation and threatening her happiness.